Ch 17 Quiz 2 Flashcards
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Basic practices in therapeutic touch?
moving your hand a few inches from a patients body in irder to push energy fields into balance
Many ??? use ??? touch.
nurses
therapeutic
What is threrpuric touch sip owed to help?
heal everything from headaches, burns, to cancer
How did Emily test therapeutic touch?
doing an experiment. Emily would randomly put a coin in her hand and then put her hand over the practitioners hand to see if he could detect if tge Gand had energy
What were Emily’s results?
21 practioners could not guess what hand had the coin correctly more than 50 percent and practioners on average got 47 ooercent correct
How do evaluation techniques differ?
every therapy whether effective or not will seem effective yo some but their is no scientific evidr ce
What did smith reveal?
no one thepsty us superior and patients said that they were equality satisfied no matter if they saw a osychiatrust or psychologist. Also level of training of therapist made no difference.
Examples of empirically suporter therapies?
cognitive theory, inter personal therapy, and behabior therapy for depression